Hey Allison, I’m by no means an expert in Washington state law, but it is my understanding that it provides for judicial review of elections and a judge has wide latitude to order rememdies. Like it or not, that’s just the law. There was a court-ordered re-vote in a Adams county race in Washington in 1975. In the Rossi-Gregoire race, I think there was a fundamental unfairness in how the vote count/re-count was conducted in King County, as I argued in the column. On top of that there were all the irregularities. This thing is an irrecoverable mess and a new election should be held. Then, we can have finality, just three months from now, or whenever it shakes out. Obviously, the only reason to have a re-vote is if the result is in doubt–so there is no need to run all the races not decided by 129 votes over again. This kind of thing is extremely rare, but occasionaly is the right thing to do. Note the 1975 New Hampshire U.S. Senate race example I cited. And the re-vote that is being held in North Carolina. Is it less than ideal to have a “do over”? Of course. But seems to me manifestly better than shuffling a deck of cards.